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Vote Today: Save the farm in Commack!

Posted on June 24, 2010 by kwilder

Background info: here. Today is the day to get out and vote to stop the sale of The Marion Carll Farm to a gated community. The polls are open from 6 am – 9pm, Commack HS (Scholar Lane) if you live north of Jericho Tpke. Commack Middle School (Vanderbilt Pkwy.) if you live south of […]

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Commack – Save the farm update: Vote no! on school board’s plan to sell out, come see community’s plan

Posted on June 16, 2010 by kwilder

The Commack Community Association and other members of the Commack community are fighting a school district plan to sell 9 acres of land, donated to the district, to a developer. The land is the Marion Carll Farm, where school children used to be able to visit for field trips.

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2010 LI School District Vote: Early Returns

Posted on May 18, 2010 by kwilder

Early returns for Long Island school budget votes. As of 11:36pm, Newsday reports that 10 districts have had their budgets fail so far: Westbury, Port Jefferson, W. Hempstead, Elwood, Herricks, Garden City, Levittown, E. Rockaway, West Babylon, Wyandanch.

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Info and Links on School Budget Votes on Long Island for Tues. May 18, 2010

Posted on May 17, 2010 by kwilder

Information and links concerning the school budget votes and school trustee votes on Long Island, New York, which includes Suffolk County school districts and Nassau County school districts.

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An adult’s reflections on the Connetquot School situation

Posted on May 10, 2010 by kwilder

Patricia Burkhart is an activist and community leader from Long Island, New York. These are her thoughts on schools, and on the need for healing at Connetquot School District.

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Help needed for Connetquot School District

Posted on May 9, 2010 by kwilder

What the regular news will tell you is that, at Connequot High School on Long Island, New York,  a 17-year-old former student, and a 16-year-old current student were involved in a plot to do shootings at the school. Then, the AP story and the regular news will go on and on with details of their […]

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Photo…Driving home from work: Free show!

Posted on May 6, 2010 by kwilder

KW: I wish I had captured the moment on tape. Though, I did get a photo quick enough. Wanna know what it’s about?…

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NY State Senate: Bill to allow kids to okay vaccinations

Posted on February 7, 2010 by kwilder

*Action Alert* at readmore… Please forward The New York State Senate will vote on a bill that would allow STD vaccine shots (Hep-B and Gardasil) to be given to minors without consent or knowledge of mom and dad. There is no age in the bill, so a nine-year-old could technically give consent if this bill […]

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2 Weeks After Class Action Lawsuit Filed Over Police in NYC Schools, 12-year-old put in handcuffs

Posted on February 5, 2010 by kwilder

An announcement from the New York City Civil Liberties Union Full story at NYCLU: here. 2 Weeks After Class Action Lawsuit Filed Over Police in NYC Schools, Another Child Arrested for Desk Doodling February 5, 2010 — The New York Civil Liberties Union today expressed outrage over the treatment of a 12-year-old girl who was […]

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Top 10 Posts of 2009: Wilderside New Year’s Countdown

Posted on December 31, 2009 by iwilder

Our Top Ten Posts of 2009 (in reverse order for drama…) 10. Long Island Concerts Winter/Spring 2009 Though we lean heavily towards politics, we do also consider ourselves to be an arts and culture website.  As with politics, we like to cover music that the corporate media ignores.  Our number ten top post this year […]

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High School rankings

Posted on December 10, 2009 by iwilder

KW: The big education news is a list of top high schools by US News & World Reports. It is interesting to look at what kind of schools won (many are specific and/or mission-oriented.) Also, to see the US News & World Reports rankings of all states in regards to high school education. And, if […]

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TV is not good for babies (or other living things…)

Posted on November 5, 2009 by kwilder

(excerpt from) Go Eric.com via Chicago Tribune Refunds offered for Baby Einstein videos by Julie Deardorff If you were duped into thinking that Baby Einstein videos were helping your baby’s brain, you can now get your money back. Three years after the Walt Disney company stopped claiming the videos were educational for children under 2, […]

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Tonight! Fri., Nov 6th: PeaceSmiths Coffeehouse

Posted on November 3, 2009 by kwilder

This month…Sonny Meadows, Alan Semerdjian, Maxwell Wheat and Bob Westcott…

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Healing Schools: Columbine and Jonesboro school massacres

Posted on October 16, 2009 by kwilder

KW: As noted in a story in The Guardian UK, the mother of one of the Columbine killers has released an essay with her reflections in “O”, the Oprah Winfrey magazine. The essay is by Dylan Klebold’s mother, Susan Klebold. No one from the family of Eric Harris had made public comments on the massacre […]

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